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Fear of West Nile Virus outbreak after experts say this week’s heavy rain could bring increase in mosquitoes to Houston area
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West Nile Virus concerns as week of rain brings out more mosquitoes
HOUSTON – After this week’s heavy rain, the Harris County Public Health Mosquito and Vector Control Division said we could see a slight increase of mosquitoes across our area.
On Friday, The Division added 11 positive mosquito samples for the West Nile Virus, bringing the total number to 42 this year.
Last month, the first sample was found in the Willowbrook area.
West Nile Virus Reemerges as Mosquito Tests Positive in Houston Subdivision
On 7/3/21 at 1:37 AM EDT
A painful and somewhat deadly virus carried by mosquitoes has resurfaced in a Houston suburb. The West Nile virus has been tested positive in a mosquito trapped at a new construction site in Sugar Land, just on the west side of Houston.
And it s just in time for a full summer of heat, humidity and threatening hurricanes.
It also comes as the world tries to shoo away the COVID-19 coronavirus that lurked all of 2020 and most of 2021 so far.
The captured mosquito that tested positive was in the New Territory subdivision on Morrisons Place, according to KHOU, the CBS affiliate in the Bayou City. Of the mosquitos trapped, at least one has tested positive for the West Nile virus so far.
The mosquitoes die a very cold death in freezers, and then, they are sorted – one by one. Liquefied into a sample, they’re then squirted onto a test plate.
Harris County Public Health officials identified and collected the county’s first West Nile Virus mosquito sample of the year, health officials said Tuesday in a release.